April 6, 2004

After losing an earlier match to the USA, Team Canada has beaten the American Women’s Hockey Team 2 to 0 in Halifax, Nova Scotia to win its eighth straight gold medal at the World Women's Hockey Championship. No word if any coinage was frozen beneath the ice. 11:37:56 PM

The as yet untitled Star Wars: Episode III will be released in the United States and Canada on Thursday, May 19, 2005. All other Star Wars movies have also been released in May. 11:37:34 PM

Forbes Magazine looks at the hardware that will be needed to implement the 1-Gigabyte sized mail folder that Google’s Gmail will be offering. It states:  Let's say Google gets one million users. One million users with a storage allocation of 1 GB each will push the storage needs of the infrastructure required to support GMail beyond the range of mere terabytes, into the range of petabytes. A petabyte is one quadrillion bytes, or 1,024 TB. It's the equivalent of 250 billion pages of text, 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets, or 83,000 full-length movies. That's some serious storage capacity. Noting this, many, myself included though the announcement might be a joke. However petabyte sized data centres are a reality. From the article: Last year the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., pushed its storage capabilities beyond 1 PB with a little help from StorageTek. And the U.S. Department of Defense is working on a database containing medical records of military personnel that could one day achieve a size of 50 PB. 11:37:06 PM